When did left wingery become associated with being pro-EU? It’s a good question.

”“One of the great mysteries of British politics is how being pro-EU came to be seen as a left-wing thing. The EU is pro-banker and pro-bosses. It hammered the Greek working class. It sneers at Italian voters. The left should be raging against the EU.”

It might just be in the UK that being pro-EU is associated with being Left Wing. What is seen as left or right often flips when we cross the Channel, but it’s definitely the case here that being pro-EU has become more associated with leftism. Labour MP Chuka Umunna said exactly that this week, but he doesn’t know his history. As well as Foot, Benn and Castle, post-war Labour giants such as Hugh Gaitskell and Clement Attlee were firmly opposed to any UK involvement with European integration. Labour contested the 1983 General Election on a promise to take us out of the then EEC.

For some leftists it’s simply favouring what people you dislike happen to dislike. They associate being anti-EU with being white and patriotic, therefore they support the EU. It was during the 1980s that anti-patriotism began to take root across the left. But this still doesn’t explain it all. I’ve always thought that being anti-EU is naturally left wing. Criticisms laid out by Brendan O’Neill sit at the heart of the leftist tradition, but such arguments seem to be ignored.

How can anyone claim that that the British people are not being replaced, or that it’s “just a white nationalist conspiracy theory”, when the evidence that it’s happening is irrefutable?

Answer: They don’t want us to know.

Birth ethnicity statistics for 2017 were released by the ONS today and show a further decline in the percentage of White British babies born: down 1.1% year on year to 59.5% of total. White British births are on course to be a minority by 2025. Source: https://t.co/lhnq02kpIkpic.twitter.com/LEYegWoZ2U

As Pete points out below, CNN did not rely on local reporters on the US southern border for news about the existing border wall.

Instead, CNN sent one of their brightest reporters, Jim Acosta, down to the border and as Jim stood next to a tall steel barrier wall, he reported back:

“no sign of the national emergency that the president has been talking about” and it was “tranquil” near him. He captioned the video, “I found some steel slats down on the border. But I don’t see anything resembling a national emergency situation.. at least not in the McAllen TX area of the border where Trump will be today.”

We’re not supposed to peek behind the curtain. CNN asked San Diego station KUSI News for a local view of the border wall. CNN didn’t like what they heard. They couldn’t use KUSI for propaganda, so KUSI was dropped.

Thursday morning, @CNN called the KUSI Newsroom asking if a reporter could give them a local view of the debate surrounding the border wall and government shutdown. After we informed them about our past reports, they declined to hear from us.

The same bunch of cranks that came up with thousands of reasons why crime is supposedly not the fault of criminals have concluded that men should look and behave like Liberace. Courage, aggressiveness, risk taking, determined problem solving, and masculinity in general, they say, is toxic and “harmful” to us all.

I can’t wait for them to discover that they only exist because their forebears were more masculine than the competitors they killed along the way.

The most Brutal of the Netflix mini series the Punisher is about to drop. They are calling it Season 2, but it’s really season 3. The first season was combined with a second half of DareDevil.

Frank Castle is unique in the genre he has no special powers, just training, anger and a good view of Right and Wrong. If you haven’t seen the series do yourself a favor and binge it. Start with where he appears in DareDevil.

It appears that I can’t have that beef in black bean sauce on Saturday unless we have political union with the Communist Party of China. That is the implication here.

It’s not only how the metropolitans see us Brexiteers, it’s an insight into the extraordinarily parochial mind of the Remainer. She thinks it’s literally remarkable that someone who wants to live in a self-governing nation would consider eating foreign food (whatever Polish doughnuts* are).

LATEST: Jaguar Land Rover confirms it’ll cut 4,500 jobs as it responds to a Brexit slowdown

So Jaguar Land Rover will shed 4500 jobs. They won’t be alone. German manufacturers are having tough times. There are a number of contributory reasons. China’s economy has slowed, and manufacturers are holding back cars for China ahead of planned tariff cuts.

Diesel sales have collapsed, thanks to government taxes and propaganda, and JLR still produces too many diesels. Saloon sales have collapsed as the world moves towards SUVs, and JLR still produces too many saloons. And even though they are good, JLR products have always been priced very high.

So there are many reasons why it’s cutting costs. But propagandists aren’t into facts. So they call it “a Brexit slowdown”.

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